Roger Beck's book " Religion of the Mithras Cult in the Roman Empire".Has little to do with the origins of Mithras and Zoroastrianism in Persia.You think a book about the Southern Baptist Church is going to explain Early Christianity ?Yep. You are fluent in Gibberish.

Hey, gardener-in-the-tomb boy, I'm still wait for a link showing Beck's book is "about the Southern Baptist Church".

<quoted text>Yes, and the world was made by magic in six days, and man is made of mud and woman of a rib, and the world was submerged by forty days of rain, and a dead man got up and became a god.Your commitment to reality is legendary.

Former Atheists"Allan R. Sandage is a famous scientist who had won numerous esteemed scientific awards.At age 50 he became a Christian. "I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery but is the explanation for the miracle of existence, why there is something instead of nothing."Alan Sandagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_R._SandagePart 5

<quoted text>Your link didn't refute anything.However, there is this...Haaretz is a Jewish source:"The reality is that there is no evidence whatsoever that the Jews were ever enslaved in Egypt. Yes, there's the story contained within the bible itself, but that's not a remotely historically admissible source. I'm talking about real proof; archaeological evidence, state records and primary sources. Of these, nothing exists."http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/the-jewis... ()From Religious Criticism:http://www.religiouscriticism.com/bible/the-j..."Further, there is no evidence of any kind that Egypt even used slaves, and certainly no evidence that they enslaved an entire nation. The workers that built the pyramids are known to be well payed Egyptians. The pyramids werent even built in the right time period, being 800 to 2,000 years older than the supposed Exodus."From the largest Jewish circulated Jewish magazine - Reform Judaism:"The Torah devotes more than four books to the proposition that the Israelites came to Canaan after having been subjugated in Egypt for generations, and yet there is no archaeological evidence to support that they were ever in Egypt.A prolonged Egyptian stay should have left Egyptian elements in the material culture, such as the pottery found in theearly Israelite settlements in Canaan, but there are none.In short, the traditions of servitude in Egypt, the tales of the Israelites wandering in the desert, and the stories of the conquest of the promised land all appear to be fictitious."http://reformjudaismmag.org/Articles/index.cf...From The Christian Science Monitor:"Egyptian archaeologists presented new evidence Monday that the people who worked on the Great Pyramids of Giza were not Jewish slaves, but paid laborers. Newly discovered tombs show construction workers were honored by being buried near the pyramids."http://www.csmonitor.com/World/2010/0111/Egyp..."Today more than 90% of scholars agree that there was no Exodus from Egypt, 80% feel that that the Conquest of the Land did not take place as described in the Bible, and about 50% agree that there was no powerful United Monarchy." - Professor Israel Finkelstein, The Bible Unearthed.The archaeological evidence is conclusive: The Jews were never in Egypt, there was never an Exodus, and and no Jewish conquest of the land of Israel. In fact, the Jews were still polytheists when the first Passover was supposed to have happened. Jews and Christians wishing to pretend otherwise would do well to absorb the facts presented by Ze'ev Herzog, Israel Finkelstein, William Dever, and many others.William Dever, a Christian biblical archaeologist who got into the business to prove the truth of the Biblical account, tells about how his research into the Bible's historicity led to his loss of Christian faith in "Losing Faith: Who Did and Who Didnt, How Scholarship Affects Scholars":"About 15 years ago, in my archaeological work I began to write about ancient Israel. Originally I wrote to frustrate the Biblical minimalists; then I became one of them, more or less. The call of Abraham, the Promise of the Land, the migration to Canaan, the descent into Egypt, the Exodus, Moses and monotheism, the Law at Sinai, divine kingshiparchaeology throws all of these into great doubt. My long experience in Israel and my growing uncertainty about the historicity of the Bible meant that was the end for me." http://bit.ly/dtmGfF < link to full .pdf

<quoted text>No. But He also never mentioned that it was bad to cut off a person's finger with bolt cutters as a punishment. But we all know that's wrong.

Why not ? Without instructions from the Bible you have no moral backing. If the man's fingers sinned then they should be cut off. It is the moral thing to do. Jesus said so:

"if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell." Matthew 5:29,30

<quoted text>They were my words and mine alone. They were directed at an individual. It was not an atheist against a Christian. It was a decent person against a vile POS.You are still an ahole but I wouldn't wish you harm.

Yeah. I understand that. Those were your words to that person. The words were not "atheist caused" or said because you do not have the faith supported belief of the theist.

Personally I think he feigns the entire misunderstanding about the comments.

He has a disingenuous streak. He can't suppress it. That's my opinion, and that opinion has nothing to do with being atheist.

<quoted text>New science can sometimes confirm what is already in the Holy Book... in principles. For example, many Christians believe that when God said, "Let there be light..." is in reference to our sun. But it is not as the sun was created I the fourth day (or better said, eon or age). But now we know that the visible light spectrum which we can see is miniscule to the actual range of the types of unseen light that we are not even aware of...

And yet plants somehow existed without light, or the sun?C'mon, really?

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